Lewis H Glinert

Dartmouth College · Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Literatures

Taking the ‘medication experience’ in the broad sense of what individuals hear and say about their medication, as well as how they experience it, this paper explores diverse research on medication information available to patients and their modes and capacities for interaction, including personal circles, doctors and pharmacists, labeling and promo...

This study explores conceptions of language and rhetoric in ancient and medieval Jewish life and writings which relate to Hebrew, other languages, and language per se, reflecting both ‘religious’ notions and ethnic and national praxis and identity. The main focus in those times was on the language of scripture, but Jews also pondered the purpose of...

In Reply In highlighting the potential misuse of practice guidelines in litigation, Mr Kels and Dr Kels draw attention to one of the many unintended consequences of intermediate-grade recommendations; that is, that the authority of a professional society’s imprimatur and the appearance of quantitation inherent in an alphanumeric rating system may c...

A marked discrepancy exists between the nature of the guidance that physicians provide as individuals and the guidance provided by professional societies. Guidance between individual physicians—for example, during patient handoffs—often tends to be brief and directive, often communicated in the form of to-do lists. Guidance from societies, predomin...

We developed and experimentally evaluated four novel educational programs delivered online: an informational brochure, a visual interactive tool, a written narrative, and a video narrative. The programs were designed to inform people about risk diversification, an essential concept for financial decision-making. The effectiveness of these programs...

In this paper, we developed and experimentally evaluated four novel educational programs delivered online: an informational brochure, a visual interactive tool, a written narrative, and a video narrative. The programs were designed to inform people about risk diversification, an essential concept for financial decision-making. The effectiveness of...

This paper applies insights from linguistics and discourse analysis to prescription drug brand Web sites, with special reference to the 100 top-selling drugs. Such sites give the outward appearance of being a place to go for straightforward information about a specific brand. In reality, they present a confused mix of brand information, health info...

This article describes the views and experiences of Strictly-Orthodox Jewish women with respect to the metapragmatic ethos of Shmiras HaLoshon (monitoring one's talk, literally 'guarding the tongue'). Eight extended interviews were conducted with Strictly-Orthodox women and teenagers in London, and salient themes were identified, namely: A. Loshon...

The linguistic study of apologies has focused on identifying pragmatic norms, but with porous and inconsistent results. Functionalist models have had more success, but have not fully recognized the centrality of negotiation and discursive struggle highlighted by Thomas ( 1985), Watts (2005) and others. One major source for extended apologies is the...

The concept of sound symbolism proposes that even the tiniest sounds comprising a word may suggest the qualities of the object which that word represents. Cancer-related medication names, which are likely to be charged with emotional meaning for patients, might be expected to contain such sound-symbolic associations. We analyzed the sounds in the n...

The US Food and Drug Administration has called for research that may assist in developing standards for risk/benefit messages in the promotion of prescription drugs. Linguistics-based models of meaning and inference, though frequently applied to advertising, have not hitherto been used in this arena. This study was intended to illustrate how discou...

Considerable attention has been afforded to analyzing the content of and assessing consumers' reaction to print direct-to-consumer drug ads, but not so for televised ads. To determine whether advertisements with different risk severity and risk presentation would significantly affect viewers' (1) recall of information contained in the advertisement...

Israeli policy governing written occupational safety information for carriage and supply of hazardous goods, and procedures for implementation, are described and evaluated for their potential communicative effectiveness, in view of users' linguistic abilities and the language employed. We also consider whether the addressee should include the end-u...

WINFRED P. LEHMANN, ESTHER RAIZEN and HELEN-JO JAKUSZ HEWITT. Biblical Hebrew: an analytical introduction. San Antonio, TX: Wings Press, 1999. $35 (paper). - Volume 64 Issue 1 - LEWIS H. GLINERT

General - ClyneMichael (ed.): Undoing and redoing corpus planning. (Contributions to the Sociology of Language), 78. viii, 520 pp. Berlin and New York, NY: Mouton de Gruyter, 1997. DM 198. - Volume 62 Issue 3 - Lewis Glinert

General - RavidDorit Diskin: Language change in child and adult Hebrew: a psycholinguistic perspective. xii, 233 pp. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. £14.99. - Volume 62 Issue 3 - Lewis Glinert

The Near and Middle East - AbramsonGlenda: The Oxford book of Hebrew short stories, ix, 412 pp. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. £38, $58. - Volume 62 Issue 2 - Lewis Glinert

Acquisition of Yiddish by Hasidic youth is a thriving case of ethnic mother-tongue revitalization. Schooling, filling almost every waking hour, appears to play as important a role as home in developing proficiency and motivation. Interviews with boys' educators revealed an alternating nonchalance and anxiety, paralleling attitudes to Judaism itself...

General - EdwardsJohn: Multilingualism. xv, 256 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 1994. £19.95. - Volume 62 Issue 1 - Lewis Glinert

The Near and Middle East - Sáenz-BadillosAngel: A history of the Hebrew language. Transl. by John Ewolde. xii, 371 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. £24.95, $39.95. - Volume 62 Issue 1 - Lewis Glinert

Examination of the role of popular and specialized lexicography in the re-nativization of Hebrew has been able to cast light on the question of how far a society needs its dictionaries. Even where popular and specialist lexical need would appear to be extreme, as in the urgent, politically charged re-vernacularization of Hebrew for a broad range of...

This paper examines regulations and standards for safety information accompanying Israeli consumer products, in the context of broad Israeli language policy and EU safety communication policies, with special reference to pharmaceuticals and children's products (two high anxiety areas) and the needs of “weak consumers.” Communicative consciousness i...

HalivniDavid Weiss: Peshat and derash: plain and applied meaning in rabbinic exegesis, xii, 249 pp. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. £28. - Volume 59 Issue 1 - Lewis Glinert

Ben-RafaelEliezer and SharotStephen: Ethnicity, religion and class in Israeli societyxi, 287 pp. Cambridge University Press, 1991. £35, $44.95. - Volume 58 Issue 3 - Lewis Glinert

CohenMenachem (ed.): Mikra'ot Gedolot ‘Haketer’: a revised and augmented scientific edition based on the Aleppo Codex and early medieval Mss. Joshua-Judges [in Hebrew]. Ramat Gan: Bar-Ilan University press, 1992. - Volume 58 Issue 1 - Lewis Glinert

To add a sudden 10% to its population in the form of 0.5 million Soviet migrants, professionalised and wedded to Russian culture, would test any monolingual society. Faced with this, Israel's traditional Hebrew‐enforcement policy in the Ingathering of the Diaspora is apparently in retreat. Israel is now officially committing large resources to fost...

Rodrigue-SchwarzwaldOra and SokoloffMichael: A Hebrew dictionary of linguistics and philology. [v], 288 pp. Even-Yehuda: D. Reches Publishing Ltd., 1992. - Volume 57 Issue 2 - Lewis Glinert

SpolskyBernard and CooperRobert L.: The languages of Jerusalem. (Oxford Studies in Language Contact.) xiv, 166 pp. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991. £30.00 - Volume 57 Issue 1 - Lewis GliNert

FrieselEvyatar: Atlas of modern Jewish history. 159 pp. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990. £25. - Volume 55 Issue 3 - Lewis Glinert

FishmanJoshua A.: Language and ethnicity in minority sociolinguistic perspective. (Multilingual Matters, 45.) x, 717 pp. Clevedon, Philadelphia: Multilingual Matters. 1989. - Volume 55 Issue 1 - Lewis Glinert

This study explores the correlation between notions of language and territory in the ideology of a present-day Ultraorthodox Jewish group, the Hasidim of Satmar, in the context of Jewish Ultraorthodoxy (Haredism) in general. This involves the present-day role of Yiddish vis-à-vis Hebrew, particularly in Israel. We first address the relative sanctit...

SteinsaltzAdin (ed.): The Talmud: The Steinsaltz edition, i: Tractate Bava Metzia; ii: A reference guide. xii, 252 pp.; [ix], 323 pp. New York: Random House, 1989. - Volume 54 Issue 1 - Lewis Glinert

WexlerPaul: Explorations in Judeo-Slavic linguistics. xix, 286 pp. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1987. Guilders 160, $80. - Volume 54 Issue 1 - Lewis Glinert

AbramsonGlenda (ed.): The Blackwell companion to Jewish culture. xxiii, 853 pp. Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1989 [pub. 1990]. £49.95. - Volume 54 Issue 1 - Lewis Glinert

MoragShelomo: Babylonian Aramaic: the Yemenite tradition. [Hebrew]. Jerusalem: Ben Zvi Institute, 1988. - Volume 53 Issue 3 - Lewis Glinert

KaddariMenahem Zevi and SharvitShim'on (ed.): Studies in the Hebrew language and the Talmudic literature. Dedicated to the Memory of Dr. Menahem Moreshet. [Hebrew]. Ramat-Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press, 1989. - Volume 53 Issue 3 - Lewis Glinert

KatzDovid (ed.): Dialects of the Yiddish language. Papers from the second Annual Oxford Winter Symposium in Yiddish language and literature. (Winter Studies in Yiddish, vol. 2.) [v], 122 pp. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1988. - Volume 53 Issue 2 - Lewis Glinert

In the history of Hebrew letters, few dates have so cavalierly been invested with literary and linguistic significance as 1886/7, the publication date of Mendele's short story BeSeter Ra'am. Such scholars of literature as Ravnitzki, Klausner and Werses have hailed its style as the pointer or veritable trigger to a redeployment of the traditional ‘s...

FischlerB. Z. (ed.) [and] RieglerMichael (comp.): Hebrew books, articles and doctoral theses on contemporary Hebrew published in Israel (1948005f;1980). (Studies and Research for Teachers of Hebrew as a Second Language, 6.) xiv, 194 pp. Jerusalem: Council on the Teaching of Hebrew, 1984. - Volume 48 Issue 1 - Lewis Glinert

FishmanJosua A.(ed.): Never say die: a thousand years of Yiddish in Jewish life and letters. (Contributions fo the Sociology of Language, 30.) xv, 763 pp. The Hague, Paris and New York: Mouton, 1981. DM 94. - Volume 48 Issue 1 - Lewis Glinert

i. SHADOWS ON THE SAND: THE MEMOIRS OP SIR GAWAIN BELL. By (SIR) GAWAIN BELL. London, C.Hurst/New York, St Martins, 1983. pp.xiv, 258, 2 maps and index. El3.50.

KamhiD. J.: Modern Hebrew: an introductory course. (School of Oriental and African Studies.) [viii], 156 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982. £9.50. - Volume 46 Issue 2 - Lewis Glinert

This is a syntactic-semantic study of negative and non-assertive environments in Contemporary (Israeli) Hebrew (henceforth CH), with particular reference to the determiners and pro-forms specific to them. These are illustrated by the non-italicized forms in 1–3 below: By ‘non-assertive environments’, I mean incomplete negation (as with Enghlish ‘h...